EDUCATION campaigners staging an occupation at a south London college were forced to leave under threat of arrest yesterday as the council pressed on with privatisation plans.

Supporters of the campaign to save Lewisham Southwark College (Lesoco) from closure entered the Camberwell campus late on Sunday night, expecting to find the building empty for the summer holidays.

But people attending jobcentre workshops held at the site yesterday raised the alarm and management called the police.